The problem with this stuff is that it is addictive. You will meet some people in your life who glaze over when you talk about football tours and how some floodlights just pop in a certain light, but they clearly are not to be trusted.

You end one season and tell yourself you are looking forward to the break. And then you are by a pool or halfway up a mountain and you are double checking the fixture release dates and wondering if there is a long read feature in the football club 20 miles from your hotel. Dear lord, what a sad little life.

Repeating the Doing The 92 project – my odyssey to every English football league club in a single season – was never going to be possible; not in 2025-26 at least. There are 13 days between the 2026 Champions League final and the start of a 48-team, a

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